Jeff Bezos (L) talks with Donald Graham, CEO of the Washington Post Company, as they arrive for lunch at the annual Allen and Co. conference.

A Washington Post piece about its incoming owner, Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, misleads readers about the online retailer’s impact on independent booksellers and its stance on taxes, according to a Sunday blog post from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left leaning think tank in Washington.